Blank for nails



(No Model.) J. T JONES.

BLANK FOR NAILS.

No. 339,189. Patented Apr. 6, 1886.

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UNTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN T. JONES, OF IRON MOUNTAIN, MICHIGAN.

BLANK FOR NAILS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 339,189, dated April 6,1886.

(No model.)

If 0 (0Z5 whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, JOHN T. JONES, a citizen of the United States,residing at Iron Mountain, county of Menominee, State of Michigan, haveinvented or discovered a new and useful Improvement in Blanks for Nails;and I do hereby declare the following to be a full,clear, concise, andexact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, making a part ofthis specification, in whieh-like lettersindicating like parts- Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improvednail-bla-nk. Fig. 2 is an edge View of the same. Fig. 3 is a perspectiveview of a nail cut from the blank.

My invention relates to blanks or plates for the manufacture of nails;and it consists in a new and improved form of blank, all as more fullyhereinafter described and claimed.

Nails have heretofore been manufactured by feeding blanks or plates ofuniform thick ness into a machine having cutters set at an angle to theline of feed of the blank, so as to give to the nail cut therefrom atapering body, and the blank being fed is rotated one hun drcd andeighty degrees after each cut, so as to give the nail a taper on two ofits sides.

The object of my invention is to so form the nail plates or blanks thatnails having the usual tapering sides may be cut therefrom at each outwithout rotating the blank, and without any waste of material. To thisend I form, by rolling in suitably-shaped rolls, nail plates or blanksA,whieh are of the usual shape and size, but have their two sides atapering from one edge to the other, as shown, and with the sides at oneedge beveled off, as at b, so as to form a knifeedge longitudinallyalong one edge of the blank, to form the point ofthe completed nail.This blank is fedinto anail-machine which has its knives or cuttersarranged at right angles to the line of feed of the blank, and the nailsare cut off from the blank by series of parallel cuts, as indicated bydotted lines 0 in Fig. 1. After the nail has been severed from the blankit is caught by grippers and headed by a suitable die, as is usual inthe ordinary nail-machines.

It is obvious that as the wedgelike or tapering body of the nail isformed by the tapering sides of the blank, there is no necessity forrotating the blank while being fed into the machine, and there will beno waste of material.

I propose to form my blanks from the split fag ends or section of steelrails, or from suitable steel bloom or billets.

In place of forming a knife-edge along one edge of the blank, the edgemay be made square.

I claim herein as my invention- A nail plate or blank having taperingsides, both said sides being beveled off, as shown, to form a knifeedge,substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

JOHN T. JONES.

Witnesses:

R. H. WHITTLEsnY, DARwiN S. WoLeorT.

